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15 Great Songs That Mention 15 Great Brooklyn Neighborhoods

This is not a list of the greatest songs about Brooklyn. I repeat: THIS IS NOT A LIST OF THE GREATEST SONGS ABOUT BROOKLYN. If it were, that title would obviously go to either “Brooklyn (If You See Something, Say Something)” by Taking Back Sunday or “Brooklyn Roads” by Neil Diamond. So, Neil Diamond. Rather, this is a list of 15 wonderful songs from 15 superb artists that mention 15 equally magnificent Brooklyn neighborhoods. Please feel free to add your favorites in the comments, especially if you’ve got a song that namedrops Vinegar Hill or, shudder, RAMBO.

As an elderly Brooklyn native from Mill Basin, I would commend to you youngsters an old but good song: Lil’ Kim’s “Not Tonight” with its line, “I know a dude named Ron Doo push a Q / Had a wild crew on Flatbush and Avenue U”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaNTfr_bUA0

I have a song, “McCarren Park”, about Williamsburg….I hate to go all self promo here but if you want to check it out its on my sonicbids page. (L Mag guys if this is too self promotional just delete, am only posting here bc it is a song about a Bkln nabe)…